Practitioner of Curanderismo

In a Session with Daniela…

Each session is a minimum of 90 minutes. This is because I follow the pace of your nervous system and your healing, not just the pace of the clock.

We will almost always start out with a plática. For some , this might be the majority of the session they need on a given day. Heart to heart connection is critical for the healing process. Plática is the original medicina that led to modern day talk therapy. It is through our heart to heart that I will feel into what else I can offer you in that day’s session.

Maybe you are carrying energy that requires a limpia. We all require limpias from time to time or as often as we can get them. For a limpia I might work on you with a huevo, with obsidian, with humo (burning sacred yerbas), or using the fresh yerbas themselves to slap and sweep you.

Maybe you require hands-on body work. I often offer gentle sobadas to ease stress and tension as well as to improve ánima and alignment. This can range from full body sobadas to a simple sobada for your head or hands. But body work comes in many forms and there are various tools I use.

I offer sobadas de matriz for those who have physical and/or energetic wombs. This massage involves working on the whole panza and the interconnected organs. We carry so much in this of our bodies. It is an area of creation and creativity. It is also an area where things are broken down, digested, and discarded. Physically, there can be stagnancy, inflammation, misalignment, and congestion. Sobadas de matriz help to clear congestion, reduce inflammation, and bring the womb back into place. We call misalignment of the womb, matriz caída and it can be caused by many, many different things such as repeated physical movements (ex: wearing high heels), physical traumas (ex: falling down, being in a wreck, being physically assaulted), sexual trauma, emotional traumas (susto, grief, loss, etc.), and more. Sobadas de matriz may be recommended for many different situations.

I also work with rebozos to do body work that provides revitalization, stretching, and down regulation of the nervous system. Being wrapped in rebozos can feel like being wrapped in a womb.

Ventosas is another tool I may recommend. They are our version of cupping. They work with fire and air to suck energetic and physical stagnancy from the body in areas that are tight and require release.

Note that if you are coming to me for scar work, we will work on it emotionally, energetically, and through physical touch with aceite.

Baños vaginales are specifically offered for people with conchas. Steaming the vagina and womb utilizing aromatic herbs is an ancient practice that helps us to release both physical and energetic stagnancy. It brings warmth, vitality, and healing to these parts of our bodies. Which in turn help to balance our overall wellbeing. Baños vaginales are mostly offered to my postpartum clients but they are very helpful for people in all phases of life after our first blood. It can clear infections, boost fertility, heal us after birth, abortion, or miscarriage, improve the flow of our cycles, increase libido, ease menopause symptoms, and more.

Additionally you will possibly be offered healing teas, tinctures, or remedios. There may be recommendations made about or for your nutrition and physical well being. When possible, I will teach you things that you can do to further your own healing between sessions and after we are done working together.

In my care, you will be held, sung to, and given difficult truths. Your whole self will be welcomed. I will not heal you. I will provide guidance and the container for you to find your healing. I will ask you to show up for yourself. I will ask for the guidance of our ancestors, yours and mine. In the traditions passed down to me, I will ask the sacred energies of the universe to work through me. Thank you for trusting me to walk along side you for this part of your journey.